Michal Marczak

Bio

Michal studied film at the California Institute of the Arts and is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. His latest feature-length film All These Sleepless Nights premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Best Directing award.

His previous film Fuck For Forest premiered at South By Southwest and Rotterdam IFF. The film is considered to be the most highly-screened Polish Documentary of 2013, being released cinematically in a number of countries. It was chosen by UK’s Dazed and Confused Magazine as one of the “top ten most innovative and genre-pushing docs of recent years.”

Michal’s first feature length film was At the Edge of Russia which garnered him the HBO Emerging Artist Award at Hot Docs and numerous other accolades at prestigious festivals.